Ezra Klein on AI
2 quotes from Ezra Klein on the wall, 2025 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Martin Cid Magazine, Marcus on AI.
- 2026
Ezra Klein, host of The New York Times podcast The Ezra Klein Show, replying to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during their interview about AI lab safety and containment, recorded at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, September 2026.
Martin Cid MagazineNvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns AI labs: “It could be criminal liabilities”
- 2025
A.I. will have been the thing that matters
Ezra Klein of The New York Times, on his podcast episode "The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming" with Ben Buchanan, former special adviser for AI under Biden, March 2025, arguing that AGI's arrival will be historically decisive.
Marcus on AIEzra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong
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- 2026
A harm that's much larger, for example, than a single nuclear power station melting down
Former OpenAI employee David Robinson, a writer by his own account, in an Ezra Klein interview quoted on Gary Marcus's Substack (Oct 2026), comparing AI loss-of-control risk to nuclear disaster.
Gary Marcus (Substack)We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now
Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, reiterating his call for taxing robot labor like human labor in a 2026 interview with Ezra Klein of The New York Times and in his August 2026 essay. He first made the case in 2017.
The aliens really are here and have come
Bill Gates, in an interview with Ezra Klein of the New York Times published September 2026, describing AI's emergence and likening AI development to evolutionary history.
GizmodoBill Gates’s New Message About AI Doom Isn’t What You Might Think It Is
It could be civil liabilities, it could be criminal liabilities
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, interviewed by Ezra Klein on The Ezra Klein Show at Nvidia's Santa Clara headquarters, on what should happen to an AI lab that cannot contain its own experiments. Reported September 2026.
Martin Cid MagazineNvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns AI labs: “It could be criminal liabilities”
The answer is that we have to shut the labs down
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, on The Ezra Klein Show, September 2026, on what should happen if a lab says there is no way to contain its own experiments.
The New York TimesJensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far (The Ezra Klein Show)
- 2021
Most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism
Ted Chiang, writer and author of Exhalation, on The Ezra Klein Show (The New York Times), 2021, restating his 2017 essay on Silicon Valley and runaway capitalism.